Astrology is inevitably linked with heathenism, and both shut up spirit and mind against the knowledge of God Himself, which is religion; and against the knowledge of His works, which is science. And though a man may be religious without being scientific, or scientific without being religious, religion and science alike both rest on one and the same basis—the belief in "One God, Maker of heaven and earth."
That belief was the reason why Israel of old, so far as it was faithful to it, was free from the superstitions of astrology.
"It is no small honour for this nation to have been wise enough to see the inanity of this and all other forms of divination. . . . Of what other ancient civilized nation could as much be said?"[145:1]
FOOTNOTES:
[136:1] R. A. Proctor, The Great Pyramid, pp. 274-276.
[139:1] G. V. Schiaparelli, Astronomy in the Old Testament, p. 137.
[145:1] G. V. Schiaparelli, Astronomy in the Old Testament, p. 52.
